R. William Wilson became a member of the Board of Directors of El Capitan Precious Metals Inc. in 2005. He was elected to his current position in 2007. Prior to joining the Company he was a principal in Two Dragons Group LLC a marketing and business development firm engaging in private equity and merger and acquisition transactions. From 1999 to 2003 Mr. Wilson served as Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of Pebble Technology Inc. Mr. Wilson’s merchant and commercial banking career included four years as the Executive Director of Drexel Oceania LLC a specialized international merchant bank located in San Francisco and fifteen years in domestic and international wholesale banking at Westpac Banking Corporation Australia’s largest banking institution. He has worked extensively with public and private companies in North America Asia and Australia in mining financial services real estate health care building materials and petrochemical industries.
With Westpac Banking Corporation he was Chief Manager (Senior Vice President) responsible for the national commercial real estate portfolio and industry lending policy. He also led a specialist management team that negotiated the financial and legal restructuring of over $1 billion of corporate and real estate assets. Prior to that he was a senior credit officer in the national corporate banking division.
Mr. Wilson received a B.S. in Business Administration/Finance from the University of San Francisco in 1979. He has also served as Chairman and/or director of several private Australian companies in hospitality and tourism health care and commercial real estate. |